From as long as I remember, university was sold as “the best time of your life” and a place to make “lifelong memories”. I’m sure everyone’s experience of university is different, but for me, I spent some of my worst days at university wishing that it was over.
Read MoreWant your sustainable fashion cape too? Here are 4 easy things you can do to combat the damage of fast fashion on our environment by using charity shops to shop sustainably.
Read MoreSadly, celebrities aren’t sharing their fantastic new chocolate protein powder on social media because they want to bond with you or because they’re your friend and want to let you in on a great deal they’ve found.
Read MoreI hold a large issue with defining intelligence based on memory recall. The education system is built on moulding capabilities on how to learn information for recall later on in high-pressure circumstances.
Read MoreThis is a new era of people seeking work-life balance and wanting to move away from the stressful life of the Big City – the packed train commutes, the rush-hour, the traffic jams. What is there to miss anymore?
Read MoreEvery industry has been affected by the Coronavirus pandemic. Usually, returning to work after a holiday, annual leave or even a long weekend can have an impact on your mental health and routine, so how are we supposed to prepare to return to the 9-5 seamlessly now?
Read MoreThe beauty of being a woman as the French say, ‘of a certain age’, is that I can be invisible. Young people, both men and women look right through me, unless I make the effort to be noticed.
Read MoreFor most, the pandemic has ruined our resolutions, prevented our pledges, and thwarted the 2020 vows we wrote down in our iPhone notes whilst nursing a new year’s hangover. (1. Never drink again). Holidays have been hindered; weddings wavered; resolutions reset.
Read MoreI have been called on to exclusively handle President Trump’s PR in the run up to the election. It’s a long story, but it involves a wrong number, a dynamic lie, and a bribe.
Read MoreI’m embarrassed to say it: I’ve seen more of Australia than I have my own home country. Go ahead - a ring that bell and shout ‘shame, shame, shame’ for all to hear. It’s just that here wasn’t as interesting as abroad, although the UK does have so much to offer.
Read MoreWater is the basis for a lot of the world creation myths, from the creation myths of Mesopotamia to Bakuba Creation myth of Africa. Water is not only a place of creation though; it is a dangerous force of which the human and animal kingdom alike have respect, and be wary of.
Read MoreI’m trying to think of everything I would have wanted to say in the moment when the door is closed. Everything that mum or dad will be unable to say in the moment because they’ll be orbiting the room trying to keep busy with bedding and Tupperware before the last goodbye.
Read MoreI have come to the interesting realisation of the juxtaposition between ‘isolation’ and ‘escapism’. Isn’t it funny that during lockdown we have become isolated in our homes, yet we have found it possible to feel enjoyment, escapism, and freedom through our hobbies?
Read MoreI don’t know how long I’ve had a low sex drive, but it’s had a marked change over the years. Going without sex for months would have felt like a death sentence in my late teens and early 20’s, but now I just view it with a ‘it is what it is’ mindset.
Read MoreI always imagined that working from home would be the ultimate scenario. Snuggled on the sofa in my favourite pyjamas with a soft blanket slung over my shoulders, a hot cup of tea to my side and my laptop balanced on my knee firing off emails and getting everything ticked off from my work to-do list.
Read MoreSome people you meet are funny, or cruel. One thing is evident, though. You are your nationality, and that is the umbrella under which all of your traits are rationalised. Your new companions have to make sense of you, and everything has to be explained in order for them to feel comfortable around you.
Read MoreA big question that plays on my mind is where would a trans kid apply? A Boys Grammar or a Girls Grammar School? Or what about a non-binary person? Grammar Schools as a concept have this ingrained binary in most cases, with mixed Grammar Schools being few and far between (I certainly have never come across one).
Read MoreFor seven years advocacy groups and patients called out this study, urging it to be retracted, and it eventually was after outcry on Twitter. The fact that it took seven years, ironically often how long it takes for people to be diagnosed with the disease, shows how much patients are left out of the conversation about their own bodies and that ultimately the only thing worth evaluating is their appearance, not their chronic pain
Read MoreAs I wrote to my friend Gen, writing letters made me feel like I should be in a Jane Austen novel. Sappy and sentimental, maybe, but would you expect anything less from an English Literature graduate?
Read MoreAt the end of the day, it all comes down to context and/or permission: if Adele dressed like this with no reference to the black community, or did so just to be trendy or different, we’d have a problem. As it stands, I see no problem here.
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